Disrupted cities : when infrastructure fails / edited by Stephen Graham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Graham, Stephen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emergency management.

Disasters--Social aspects.

Disasters.

Infrastructure (Economics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 196 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bringing together leading researchers from geography, political science, sociology, public policy and technology studies, Disrupted Cities exposes the politics of well-known disruptions such as devastation of New Orleans in 2005, the global SARS outbreak in 2002-3, and the great power collapse in the North Eastern US in 2003. But the book also excavates the politics of more hidden disruptions: the clogging of city sewers with fat; the day-to-day infrastructural collapses which dominate urban life in much of the global south; the deliberate devastation of urban infrastructure by state militaries; and the ways in which alleged threats of infrastructural disruption have been used to radically reorganize cities as part of the 'war on terror'. Accessible, topical and state-of-the art, Disrupted Cities will be required reading for anyone interested in the intersections of technology, security and urban life as we plunge headlong into this quintessentially urban century. The book's blend of cutting-edge theory with visceral events means that it will be particularly useful for illuminating urban courses within geography, sociology, planning, anthropology, political science, public policy, architecture and technology studies.

Contents:

1. When Infrastructures Fail / Stephen Graham

2. Managing the Risk of Cascading Failure in Complex Urban Infrastructures / Richard G. Little

3. Disoriented City: Infrastructure, Social Order, and the Police Response to Hurricane Katrina / Benjamin Sims

4. Power Loss or Blackout: The Electricity Network Collapse of August 2003 in North America / Timothy W. Luke

5. Containing Insecurity: Logistic Space, U.S. Port Cities, and the "War on Terror" / Deborah Cowen

6. Clogged Cities: Sclerotic Infrastructure / Simon Marvin and Will Medd

7. Securitizing Networked Flows: Infectious Diseases and Airports / S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil

8. Disruption By Design: Urban Infrastructure and Political Violence / Stephen Graham

9. Infrastructure, Interruption, and Inequality: Urban Life in the Global South / Colin McFarlane.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

"This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2009."--Verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-85199-9

1-282-31537-4

9786612315374

0-203-89448-0

9780203894484

OCLC:

466182713